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Hello,
I am making a nesp and I want to have a battery access door like Ben's on his nes handbuilt portable. Except I don't want to use velcro. I think it looks kind of cheesy. So I was thinking could I get some powerful magnets and use those to attach the door to the case. My question is, could this mess up my nes or battery or anything? I have heard things about putting magnets on computers and that they screw it up. Could this happen to my nes? Thanks!
-Jesse
I am making a nesp and I want to have a battery access door like Ben's on his nes handbuilt portable. Except I don't want to use velcro. I think it looks kind of cheesy. So I was thinking could I get some powerful magnets and use those to attach the door to the case. My question is, could this mess up my nes or battery or anything? I have heard things about putting magnets on computers and that they screw it up. Could this happen to my nes? Thanks!
-Jesse
The main reason that magnets screw up a computer is because all the data on your hard drive is stored magnetically. If you put a strong magnet near it it will realign the data bits and everything will go crazy. There's probably nothing in an old NES that will get messed up with magnets.
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Yup, basically hard drives and floppies. Also, magnets will temporarily screw with a CRT monitor (don't worry about LCDs)codeman wrote:The main reason that magnets screw up a computer is because all the data on your hard drive is stored magnetically. If you put a strong magnet near it it will realign the data bits and everything will go crazy. There's probably nothing in an old NES that will get messed up with magnets.
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Check out the ones I used on the battery compartments in my SNESp build. Get your hands on some Rare Earth magnets, about 1/8" diameter, 1/16" thick (something like that anyway). They rock! I think I got like 50 of them for $6 off of eBay.
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No flash ram doesn't store magneticly. It uses non-volatile ram which is more simalar to the main memory ram in your computer, the difference is that non-volatile doens't need power to keep the data stored. If flash ram did store magneticly it would have more then the average 300,000 rewrites.Kyosho wrote:I've never really thought about it, but would magnets affect memory cards? They're like flash memory right? So I have no idea. Is flash memory stored magnetically?
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Like the kind of magnets they use in hard drives? Really I can understand if you're playing around with a simple magnetic clip that's ment for the refrigerator you might get away, but there's always the chance. Follow my idea and don't even risk it.totokan wrote:err... nowadays, hard drive/disk shielding is so thick/strong, magnets do nothing unless you've got some insanely strong ones.
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